Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 40:

• Search and Joomla! CMS 2.5
• 27 days count down to a new start
• JJ Tweets Module Updated For Joomla 1.7
• A Great Joomlatools Summer
• How To Package Joomla Libraries
• The Feisty Empire Apostrophe Rules

Today, the Joomla Production Leadership Team released Joomla version 1.7.1. This is the first patch upgrade of Joomla 1.7 and is recommended for all users. In addition to 3 security fixes, it also includes 96 tracker issues fixed in SVN.

Most of this release is about fixes, although there are some new features as well.

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 34:

• Six years ago today
• Joomla! Rocks on Its 6th Birthday
• Get involved with the future roadmap
• RokGallery 2.0 has arrived
• Drupal 7 Comes to RocketTheme
• DOCman 2.0 Preview in Joomladay Germany
• Taking screenshots of module parameters in Joomla
• Adding fancy box to a Zen Grid Framework template
• Our Joomla 1.7 Templates
• Does blogging bring you business?
• New fees and subscription plans coming on 2 September

As previously mentioned, Joomla 1.6 reaches end-of-life today. That means there will be no security patches or other changes to the 1.6.x branch of the code.

The good news is that upgrading to Joomla 1.7 is pretty straight-forward.

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 30:  

• Ninjaboard 1.2 nightly builds available
• The Art of Leadership
• Get a Wonderful View of Joomla Day Chicago
• Who is Joomla-jenkins?
• The Story Behind the Story of the 1.7 Release
• Report from the OSM Summit - San Jose 2011
• Joint Summit Report
• Vote for the Version
• All good things eventually come to an end
• DOCman 1.4 end-of-life
• Our template showcase gets an overhau
• When did you update your site?

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 29:

• Joomla Joint Leadership Summit

• Joomla! Explained and Why Writing a Book is So Damn Hard

• Google Trends For Joomla Not Looking So Good

• DOCman 1.6 now available!

• Rasa Joomla 1.7 template version available

• Coming up: Nooku Jam Hamburg

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 28:

• Joomla! One click that's all it took

• Changes to Gnome on the run

• Joomla 1.6 End of Life - urgent upgrade required

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 27: 

• What You Need To Know About Joomla 1.7

• Cloud.com, recently acquired by Citrix for $250m is running on Joomla! & K2

• New Joomla templates from Joomlashack

• Ecolift Joomla 1.6 Template Released

• Our Tienda Joomla Templates Updated

• Powerplay Joomla 1.6 Template now available

• News Cycle Joomla 1.6 Template now available

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 26: 

• Helping me to spread the Joomla!Love

• A Lawyer for All Seasons

• Where is the code? Where is the tracker?

• Multilang in 1.7 What's new?

• Even More 1.7 Features

• Help Wanted for the Joomla! Events Team

• DealsInJoomla.com - Coming soon to help Extension Devs collaborate in promoting their extensions !

• Joomla 1.6.4 and deals plazajoomla

• Slight delay on Joomla July Template + RokGallery Release

• Joomla 1.6 version of captifyContent is now available

• 2000 reasons to celebrate

• It's a small world - I'm famous (he he) but why my daughter doesn't like Joomla!

Yesterday, my first ever article was published on the great Smashing Magazine web site. Smashing Magazine is an online publication about design, coding and all things related to web development.

My article was published on the coding.smashingmagazine.com sub site, which contains hands-on tips and tutorials on coding, server setup etc.

The article is called How to modify a default Joomla 1.5 template. In the post, I describe in detail how to take the JA Purity template of Joomla 1.5 and modify the header, logo and other elements.

The purpose of the post is primarily to teach users how to modify a template. How to discover where settings are hidden and what CSS and code to change.